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Walk on the Wild Side
Louisiana The 1930sA side of life you never expected to see on the screen! — At the Doll House, a 1930s New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction both for clients and for Jo, the madame. Her comfortable if tedious life is disrupted by the arrival in town of Dove Linkhorn, her true love of three years before who is now searching for her. When Linkhorn learns the truth of her profession he triggers a chain of events involving a number of people, including the young Kitty with whom he travelled from Texas and who is now the Doll House newest recruit.
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The Comancheros
Louisiana The 1840sBig Jake the Adventurer... Paul Regret the Gambler... Pilar the Gypsy beauty... Three With a Past... Destined to Cross and Clash... In a Kingdom of Killers! — Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.
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The Dead One
LouisianaEXOTIC VOODOO RITUALS — A voodoo priestess sends out zombies to bring back live victims for her sacrificial rituals.
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The Fugitive Kind
LouisianaWith a guitar and a snake skin jacket he drifted out of the rain...and into the lives of these two women... — Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family.
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Suddenly, Last Summer
Louisiana The 1930sSuddenly, last summer, Cathy knew she was being used for something evil! — The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.
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The Alligator People
LouisianaNerve-shattering terror! — Under therapeutic hypnosis, a seemingly well-adjusted young woman tells a fantastic story, verified by lie detector, of her forgotten marriage to a man who disappeared on the day of their honeymoon, and of her search for him which takes her to a lonely mansion in a remote section of swampland tenanted by snakes, alligators, a drunken one-armed lout, a mysterious doctor, and a cold-hearted elderly woman who lives alone in a brooding manse.
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The FBI Story
Louisiana The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sYou are crouched in a basement stairway opposite a theatre in Chicago. Keep your eyes on that FBI man across the street. He has set the trap for deadly public enemy, John Dillinger... — A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
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The Buccaneer
Louisiana The 1810sPiercing Drama of La Fitte - Man or Devil ? — During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New Orleans when he learns that a British fleet will arrive with 60 ships and 16,000 men to take the city. In this situation an island near the city becomes strategically important to both parties, but it's inhabited by the last big buccaneer: Jean Lafitte. Although Lafitte never attacks American ships, the governor hates him for selling merchandise without taxes - and is loved by the citizens for the same reason. When the big fight gets nearer, Lafitte is drawn between the fronts. His heart belongs to America, but his people urge him to join the party that's more likely to win.
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King Creole
LouisianaBack on screen for the first time in a year! — Danny Fisher, young delinquent, flunks out of high school. He quits his job as a busboy in a nightclub, and one night he gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and the local crime boss Maxie Fields wants to hire him to perform at his night club The Blue Shade. Danny refuses, but Fields won't take no for an answer.
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The Invisible Avenger
LouisianaShuddering thrills... as the Shadow Man strikes! — Lamont Cranston, aka The Shadow, investigates the murder of a New Orleans bandleader.
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Mardi Gras
LouisianaA military school cadet romances a visiting French actress during Mardi Gras. With songs, kissing and New Orleans locations.
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Hot Spell
LouisianaA housewife is doing her best to keep her family together as it's slowly falling apart, a fact she's trying to ignore. Her cheating husband's birthday party is approaching and many lines will be crossed after that event.
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Band of Angels
Louisiana The 1860sYou're no blue blood any more, honey. The master bought you...and now he's waitin'! — Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widower father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and he sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly however, Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress. The plantation is to be sold to pay off her father's debts and as the daughter of slave, Amatha is also to be sold as property. She is bought by a Louisiana plantation owner, Hamish Bond and over time she grows to love him until she learns he was a slave-trader. She tries again to become part of white society but realizes that her future lies elsewhere.
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The Tarnished Angels
Louisiana The 1930sThe Book They Said Could Never Be Filmed! — In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne, works as a parachutist. When newspaper reporter Burke Devlin arrives to do a story on the Shumanns’ act, he quickly falls in love with the beautiful--and neglected--LaVerne.
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Swamp Women
LouisianaFlaming passions against a background of weird adventure! — An undercover policewoman helps three female convicts escape from prison so that they can lead her to a stash of stolen diamonds hidden in a swamp.
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Nightmare
LouisianaClarinettist Stan has a nightmare about killing a man in a mirrored room. But when he wakes up and finds blood marks on himself and a key from the dream, he suspects that it may have truly happened.
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Pete Kelly's Blues
Louisiana The 1920s The 1910sA jazz-man of the wide-open '20s - caught in the crossfire of its blazing .38s! — In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection.
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New Orleans Uncensored
Louisiana The 1950sFilmed at White Heat...At the Bottom of Desire Street! — William Castle directed this Sam Katzman production, a gritty crime thriller about a newly-discharged sailor who gets a job as a longshoreman in The Big Easy. He swiftly discovers mob corruption throughout the docks, and when a friend is killed by the gangsters, he convinces the police to let him go undercover and take matters into his own hands. Filmed on location on the docks and in the French Quarter.
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The Rose Tattoo
Louisiana The 1950sThe boldest story of love you have ever been permitted to see! Seething with realism and frankness! — A grieving widow embarks on a new romance when she discovers her late husband had been cheating on her.
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Cinerama Holiday
LouisianaThe 2nd Cinerama presentation — Two couples, one from St. Louis and one from Switzerland each go to the other's country and travel around.
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Carmen Jones
Louisiana The 1940sSomething Really New! Something Truly Different! — The tale of the cigarette-maker Carmen and the Spanish cavalry soldier Don Jose is translated into a modern-day story of a parachute factory worker and a stalwart GI named Joe who is about to go to flying school. Conflict arises when a prize-ring champ captures the heart of Carmen after she has seduced Joe and caused him to go AWOL.
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Princess of the Nile
Louisiana The 13th CenturyShalimar, THE FLAME THAT IGNITED EGYPT! — Shalimar, an Egyptian princess, striving to rid her country of its Bedouin conquerors, forms an alliance with Prince Haidi, son of the Caliph of Bagdad. She practices her intrigues both at the court and, disguised as a dancing girl, in the market place.
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The Gambler from Natchez
Louisiana The 19th CenturyReturning to New Orleans, following four years of army service in Texas in the 1840s, Captain Vance Colby finds his father, a professional gambler, has been killed. The police tell him his father was killed while caught cheating in a card game by Andre Rivage, an arrogant young dilettante. Vance protests that his father was an honest gambler and never used marked cards, but the police inspector tells him there were witnesses. Aided by a riverboat owner, Captain Barbee, and his daughter, Melanie, Vance sets out to clear his father's name and avenge his death.
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Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
LouisianaThey're too wild for one world! — Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket which is supposed to fly to Mars. Instead it goes to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. They are then forced by bank robber Mugsy and his pal Harry to fly to Venus where they find a civilization made up entirely of women, men having been banished.
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Thunder Bay
Louisiana The 1940sThe Brawling, Mauling Story of the Biggest Bonanza of Them All ! — Shrimpers and oilmen clash when an ambitious wildcatter begins constructing an off-shore oilrig.
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The Mississippi Gambler
LouisianaHis game is fancy women ... and his fate is Lady Luck ! — Mark Fallon, with partner Kansas John Polly, tries to introduce honest gambling on the riverboats. His first success makes enemies of the crooked gamblers and of fair Angelique Dureau, whose necklace he won. Later in New Orleans, Mark befriends Angelique's father, but she still affects to despise him as his gambling career brings him wealth. Duelling, tragedy, and romantic complications follow.
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The Steel Trap
LouisianaFor the Love of a Woman, He Stole $1,000,000! — Joseph Cotten plays a assistant bank manager who steals $500,000 from the safe late on a Friday. His plans to flee to Brazil are hampered after he does get away with the money as planned.
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The Iron Mistress
Louisiana The 1820sJIM BOWIE...a man with his name on a knife - and a woman with a weapon all her own! — In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge Narcisse's murder, but Judalon takes up with another man. Jim eventually has another romantic interlude with Judalon and is forced to kill one of her suitors in self-defense. Jim leaves town, and falls for the daughter of a Texas politician, but his entanglement with Judalon continues to bedevil him.
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Glory Alley
LouisianaStreet of tough guys, hot tunes, temptation! — A New Orleans boxer (Ralph Meeker) backs out of a bout and leaves his girlfriend (Leslie Caron) for Korea.
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Louisiana...Blanche, who wanted so much to stay a lady... — Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.
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My Forbidden Past
Louisiana The 1890sSHE's the kind of woman that made NEW ORLEANS famous! — An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune.
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Adventures of Captain Fabian
Louisiana The 1860sAn ambitious girl (Micheline Presle) uses a sea captain (Errol Flynn) to climb the social ladder in old New Orleans.
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Panic in the Streets
LouisianaTHE SCREEN'S GREATEST EXCITEMENT OF THE YEAR! — One night in the New Orleans slums, vicious hoodlum Blackie and his friends kill an illegal immigrant who won too much in a card game. Next morning, Dr. Clint Reed of the Public Health Service confirms the dead man had pneumonic plague. To prevent a catastrophic epidemic, Clint must find and inoculate the killers and their associates, with the reluctant aid of police captain Tom Warren, despite official skepticism, and in total secrecy, lest panic empty the city. Can a doctor turn detective? He has 48 hours to try...
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The Toast of New Orleans
Louisiana The 1900sM-G-M's Technicolor fiesta! — Snooty opera singer meets a rough-and-tumble fisherman in the Louisiana bayous, but this fisherman can sing! Her agent lures him away to New Orleans to teach him to sing opera but comes to regret this rash decision when the singers fall in love.
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Buccaneer's Girl
Louisiana The 1800sUniversal-International's Fiery Swashbuckling Adventure! — Buccaneer's Girl is a 1950 American romantic adventure film directed by Frederick De Cordova and starring Yvonne De Carlo, Philip Friend and Robert Douglas. A New Orleans singer becomes involved with a Pirate Lord.
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It's a Small World
LouisianaSomething's Got To Give......! When the emotions and longings of a man are pent-up in the body of a child! — Harry Musk is one in a million. That means that he's the one out of a million children who is perfectly proportioned but will never grow larger than a typical six-year-old. Adult, pint-sized Harry longs to be part of the big world.
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Night Has a Thousand Eyes
LouisianaNever Have the Stars Looked Down on an Adventure Like This! — When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship to John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition. His partner, Whitney Courtland, uses Triton's talent to make money; but Triton's inability to prevent what he foresees, causes him to break up the act and become a hermit. Years later, Triton has new visions and desperately tries to prevent tragedies in the Courtland family. Can his warnings succeed against suspicion, unbelief, and inexorable fate?
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Docks of New Orleans
LouisianaDetective Charlie Chan springs into action when top officials of a New Orleans chemical company begin dropping like flies.
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Louisiana Story
LouisianaThe idyllic life of a young Cajun boy and his pet raccoon is disrupted when the tranquility of the bayou is broken by an oil well drilling near his home.
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Lulu Belle
Louisiana The 1900sWhy did scandal always follow LULU BELLE... Men found out about her too late. — Lulu Belle is singing in a cheap dive in Natchez, Mississippi in the early 1900's when she meets rising young attorney George Davis. He gives up his fiancée and career to marry Lulu Bell. When his money runs out, Lulu Belle goes to work in a New Orleans club run by tough gambler Mark Brady. She tries to send George back to Natchez by pretending that she has fallen for prize-fighter Butch Cooper but George, in a fit of jealousy, drives a handful of forks into Butch's face. He is sent to prison and Lulu goes to New York with millionaire Harry Randolph, who makes her the singing sensation of Broadway and asks her to marry him. She refuses when she learns that George has been released from prison, realizing that he is the only man she ever truly loved.
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Road to Rio
LouisianaTake a New Year Cruise to Rio with the Screen's Top Laughter Trio! — Scat Sweeney, and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away on board a Rio bound ship, after accidentally setting fire to the big top of a circus. They then get mixed up with a potential suicide Lucia, who first thanks them, then unexpectedly turns them over to the ship's captain. When they find out that she has been hypnotized, to go through a marriage of convenience, when the ship reaches Rio, the boys turn up at the ceremony, in order to stop the wedding, and to help catch the crooks.
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New Orleans
LouisianaIt's the Lowdown on Wicked Old Basin Street! — A gambling hall owner relocates from New Orleans to Chicago and entertains his patrons with hot jazz by Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Woody Herman, and others.
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The Foxes of Harrow
Louisiana The 1820s The 1830sAn Irish rascal and inveterate gambler uses his considerable skills at the gaming tables of New Orleans to become fabulously rich.
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Swamp Fire
LouisianaWILD SAVAGE LAW...Tough Flaming Adventure!! — Highlights in this one include a fist-fight between Johnny Weissmuller and Buster Crabbe (I won't give away the winner, but check the cast order); a cat-fight between Virginia Grey and Carol Thurston that the male cast of Sienfeld would pay to see and, just to keep things moving, Weissmuller wrestles an alligator, and there are two mid-water collisions between small-craft boats, a big ship wreck and a blazing swamp fire finale. Toss in a plot that has Weissmuller as a psycho-neurotic war veteran who, because he piled up his Navy destroyer on the rocks, now dreads returning to his pre-war occupation of a pilot guiding ships through the channels at the mouth of the Mississippi. Throw in icy Virginia Grey as a spoiled heiress out to take Johnny away from his job, his friends and the girl he loves (who knows why), and you have enough plot and action for two Pine-Thomas jewels.
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The Invisible Informer
LouisianaAn aristocratic but destitute southern family attempts to swindle an insurance company by faking the theft of a valuable emerald necklace. The company assigns operatives Eve Rogers and Mike Regan to the case.
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Johnny Angel
LouisianaA New Orleans Woman Plots Murder and Mutiny For Love! — George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death.
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The Spider
LouisianaAn ex-cop is suspected of murder after he is found with a dead woman. The private detective is on the run -- attempting to prove his innocence.
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Saratoga Trunk
Louisiana The 1870sON THE SCREEN AT LAST! DESTINED FOR GREATNESS! — An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostracized them.
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Salty O'Rourke
LouisianaHe's the King of the Gamblers! — A gambler (Alan Ladd) and his buddy (William Demarest) find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse.
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Christmas Holiday
LouisianaDurbin... In her most dramatic glory. — Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin marries Southern aristocrat Robert Monette. Unfortunately, Robert has inherited his family's streak of violence and instability, and soon drags Abigail into a life of misery.
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